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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
Sue Monk Kidd
We become what we pay attention to.
Sue Monk Kidd
I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
Sue Monk Kidd
Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
Sue Monk Kidd
Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.
Sue Monk Kidd
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
Sue Monk Kidd
My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
Sue Monk Kidd
Every little thing wants to be loved.
Sue Monk Kidd
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
Sue Monk Kidd
It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.
Sue Monk Kidd
You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
Sue Monk Kidd
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
Sue Monk Kidd
Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.
Sue Monk Kidd
Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
Sue Monk Kidd
the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
Sue Monk Kidd
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
Sue Monk Kidd
Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
Sue Monk Kidd
Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
Sue Monk Kidd
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
Sue Monk Kidd
I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
Sue Monk Kidd